Apocalypse, Girl
by Jenny Hval
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 41 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 41
  3. Negative: 3 out of 41
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  1. Cornl_W
    Sep 24, 2015
    10
    Beautifully balanced record, that becomes better each time I listen. Jenny's voice perfectly fits with the electronic soundscapes on this weird record. Best tracks: Heaven | That Battle Is Over | Why This?
  2. Theonecritic
    Jun 12, 2015
    0
    Nowdays people call MUSIC anything that produces noises. I just can't call this music when I can't find any melody or harmony on it. Worse yet, some people give this album a rating over 50.
  3. xtinalol
    Oct 4, 2016
    10
    Beautifully balanced record, that becomes better each time I listen. Jenny's voice perfectly fits with the electronic soundscapes on this weird record. Best tracks: Heaven | That Battle Is Over | Why This? Collapse
  4. All_ButTrU4
    Feb 11, 2022
    7
    Jenny has a gift at creating world's rich with ethereal and mostly eerie world's. Tackling big concept themes such as sex ,capitalism,gender and identity so fluidly it never feels didactic. Provoking with each song. The opener "kingsize" is an obscure dissertation on gender roles, masculinity and music. When she softly speaks"soft dick rock " it's not an ear grabbing meaningless start butJenny has a gift at creating world's rich with ethereal and mostly eerie world's. Tackling big concept themes such as sex ,capitalism,gender and identity so fluidly it never feels didactic. Provoking with each song. The opener "kingsize" is an obscure dissertation on gender roles, masculinity and music. When she softly speaks"soft dick rock " it's not an ear grabbing meaningless start but a challenge. She's staring the systemic hold that suffocates the medium she pours herself into for expression, satisfaction &work and pulls out it's little insecurities . Whilst most of the song seems to be the awakening of something within someone. Followed by the fantastic early higlight "take care of yourself "is a concise search for what to find comfort in and if it can be a terrestrial achievement. It's a astonishing melodic moment only exceeded by the centerpiece "that battle is over". The third song is a cynical sequel to "take care of yourself "fillled with somehow funny and depressing observations. The humour bares itself in the shrill anorexia in "you say im free now/the battle is over and feminism over&socialism over ,yeah/i say and can consume what i want now" which although siphoned from an experience Jenny remembered after a feminist documentary about how people thought the pasts struggles had been won and people had to move past that. It creats a sharp edge over the other concepts she added. The latter half takes a lean harder on abstract structures and ambience. "White Underground " is sinister sonic interlude before the unsettling weird art pop of her singing "heeeeeveannnnn". Expectedly it address loss&death with a sublime eloquence. "Somedays " might seem like a filler interlude but the image it paints and the produced sound around how it is delivered make it an unravelling of sorts ,one that flows into it's fuller half on "Sabbath ". A continuation of the biblical imagery. It's a form of stream-of-consciousness that builds to a satisfying plateau. The final report got him from everything.… Expand

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Rolling Stone
    Jun 12, 2015
    70
    Apocalypse, girl is a shift toward orchestral pop after the noisy rock of 2013's Innocence Is Kinky, but Hval loses none of her avant-garde inclinations in the process.
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  2. NOW Magazine
    Jun 11, 2015
    80
    The intimate collection of low-key art pop is gloriously weird and deeply human.
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  3. Mojo
    Jun 10, 2015
    60
    Sumptuous, but still challenging. [Jul 2015, p.92]
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